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Investment Week is delighted to be hosting the 25th Fund Manager of the Year Awards on Thursday 25 June ONLINE. This year's ceremony is a key part of Investment Week's 25th anniversary celebrations in 2020 and we will be presenting awards for Outstanding Fund Manager over 25 Years and Outstanding Contribution over 25 Years on the night. A flagship event for the investment industry for a quarter of a century, the Fund Manager of the Year Awards honour fund managers and groups at the top of their game who have demonstrated consistently strong performance for investors and whom the judging panel believe have the potential to continue to outperform in the future.

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David Cumming, Aviva Investors' chief investment officer for equities, last year witnessed turbulent times for UK equities but he remains positive about the market in which he has a personal as well as a professional stake.

Some firms will 'grow through the crisis'

Allianz Global Investors’ Walter Price has rotated his portfolio away from companies whose earnings will likely be negatively affected by the coronavirus-enforced lockdown towards those expected to benefit from the measures.

Price noted that while many tech companies will see growth slow into 2021, others, such as gaming firms and Netflix, are "seeing growth rates accelerate during this time". The same can also be said for those enabling remote, secure work like Citrix, Z Scaler, Zoom, Ring Central, Google, Cisco, and Microsoft.

As a result, Price said he has rotated the £624m Allianz Technology Trust (ATT) "out of some positions in the companies where we expect negative earnings surprises and into stocks in the favourable areas above".

Price added the trust has also "raised some cash", though accepted shareholders will be keen not to see high levels of dry powder on the trust's balance sheet.

"Mostly we have refocused on the companies that we think will be benefited by this traumatic event and will emerge stronger on the other side of the crisis," Price said.

Price believes the cloud computing companies ATT owns to continue to grow through the crisis, meanwhile, due to their subscription models.

Price noted the crisis will have a "drastic" impact on earnings for some tech companies, with a stress test of advertising revenues at a leading online platform suggesting 2020 revenues could decline by as much as 20% from current estimates.